Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-10-20
Waht Protection Has Done.


Provided steady work for willing
workers.
Universally expanded the useful in
dustries.
Increased manufactures FIVE fold in
twenty years.
Vastly improved the condition of
farm laborers.
Conserved both individual and na
tionsl interests.
Fed and clad Americans with Amer
ican products.
Lowered many articles below the
European prices.
Unlocked the capital awaiting proft+
able investment.
Applied our own labor to our own
natural resources.
Created diversity of employment for
skilled labor.
Reduced the price OF every manufac
tured article.
Enormously increased the general
wealth of the country.
Turned capital into ten thousand
channels of enter prise.
Raised he average OF wages t. double
that paid in Europe.
Put 80 per cent. of the annual prod
uct into the pocket of lahor.
Presented labor the key to knowledge
and selt>imprOvement.
Contributed to the prosperity, not of
the few, but of she many.
Enhanced the value of farming lands
by promoting manufactures.
Aided in the distribution of wealth
by encouraging competition.
Fortified artificial advantages, such
as those arising from inventions.
Made the United States the greatest
work shop on the face of the earth.
Increased revenue and commerce in
greater ratio than population.
Improved the quality as well as in
creased the quantity of manufactures.
Lowered the cost of living more than
twenty-five per cent. since 1876.
Diminished profits, but at the same
time enlarged the volume of busin ess.
Rendered possible the payn ent of liv-
ing wages for getting out raw material.
Increased the production and wonder
fully reduced the price of steel rails.
Established an equilibrium between
agriculture, commere and man nufactures.
Provided a market at home that takes
seven-eighths of the farmers products.
Armed the Government for success
full war of defense against the seeding
South
Put the vast volume of our currency
into constant and general use among
ourselves.
Benefited the farmer by preventing
his customers from becoming his com
petitors.
Provided occupation, or the meaHs of
living, for more than 100000 immi+
grants.
Saved 5000 900 workers from the rev
suits of direct competition with cheap
foreign labor.
Caused American labor to be more
productive, per man, than that of any
other land.
Made market for products at the
veay door of the factory and the gate of
the farm.
Cheapened the cost of transportation,
by stimulating the investment of capital
in railroads.
Diverted the energies of the people
into new pursuits and opened up new
avenues to employment.
Promoted the expectation of manu>
factures by cheapening them, while still
maintaining good wages.
Blessed labor with the ability to ere
ate a demand for more labor by being
able to buy what it produces.
Prevented an ihundatlOn of foreign
goods like that which swept away our
manufacturing industries in 1917.
Developed to an approximate state OF
perfection those industries requiring
high degree of skill in the workmen.
Guarded farmers from competition
with India wheat produced by laborers
luxuries as we'll as the necessaries of life.
Opened to the industrious poor of
other lands the gateway to the largest
opportunities for bettering their condi
tion.
Enabled American silk manufactures
t. grow and prosper. and make the best
dress goods produced in the world to-
day.
Brought the consumption of manu-
factured commodities up to twice as
much per capita as any other nation
consumes.
Enabled the United States to reduce
its debt SIS. 100000 since 1865. while all
other great nations have largely increas-
ed their debt.
SO foStered our Woolen industries that
they make four-ffths of all the wooden
at one-eighth of what is paid in the
United States.
Trebled the number of hands employ
ed in wooden industries, quintupled the
aggregate of wages paid. and quintupled
the capital employed.
Opened to the industrious, enterprise
ing and inventive skilled workman pos
sibilities that are presented to the La
borer in no other country.
Fixed the standard of comforts,among
workingmen, infinitely higher than it
was thirty years ago in America or is
to day in any European country.
Advanced our working people far be